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Definition of bedroom tax in English:

bedroom tax

noun

(in the UK) an informal name for a measure introduced in the Welfare Reform Act 2012, by which the amount of housing benefit paid to a claimant is reduced if the property they are renting is judged to have more bedrooms than necessary.

‘more than 800 households in the area have had their housing benefit cut through the so-called bedroom tax’

‘This 'bedroom tax', which is not in fact a tax, is how the Opposition refers to the end of subsidised spare rooms for council house tenants.’

‘Government reforms to the welfare system - including so-called 'bedroom tax' - are legal, judges have ruled’